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foreground. This powerful new colorite is the motive, not natures sweet effects of no decided colors. I simply will see here a corner of the paint box. So I see. I do not care what others do with the scene, the incidents and people or climate or life there I have nothing to do. I do not dwell there, but happen to pass by, am arrested by the general effect and start with it. Hence: Individual
original sudden [[underlined]] seeing [[/underlined]] is an apparition not a reality, deals with color only not with the naturalness of things. Not these but the pictorial handling of the colors, as line, sweep, dots, curves, and all other play of the brush are to be the detail and the charm of the picture, which is not a framed segment of nature, although nature and emotion e.t.c may all be conjured up by the color effect and pictorial work to the mind of the spectator.
July 29. fertig gemalt, in ganze 13 Stunden;  Linseed & Poppy Oils, Zinc white, Harrison red, col. violet, ultram; new blue, lemon Barium, viridian, cadm. orange, cadm. aurora, aureol; ziemlich viel ol, so dass es sogar in Ultram und Viridian herablauft und in andre Farben hinein!